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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

I used some of my 1st graders' artwork for our volunteer gifts in my previous post. The remaining classes also completed a similar version but instead of using green construction paper for the leaves, we used our painted paper that we created earlier in the year. I also had a substitute for one group and she is a fantastic one! I left lesson plans for them to create just the background with paint, and I failed to specify which direction I had originally intended for the paper to be oriented. So, she did that very first step portrait instead of landscape, and I am so glad she did, because I think I love them even more this way!!

Here are the landscape versions, I was thinking it would be better to have more room for the flowers, but now I love both versions.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Each year our school hosts a volunteer appreciation tea for the wonderful volunteers that help us throughout the year. This year I was asked to have students create something special for them in art to show them how thankful we are for their time. The tree and branches are their handprints and we used our painted papers that we made earlier in the year for the flowers. :)

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I have been teaching elementary school art for 10 years. I love drawing, painting, and creating things. The only thing better than creating art, is being able to TEACH it to others! I always tell my students to color dark and heavy with colored pencils or crayons, and I often say "Color it like you MEAN it!" which is where my blog title comes from!